Review: Helios Crowns His Mistress (Kalliakis Crown #3) by Michelle Smart (Goodreads Author)

Helios Crowns His Mistress by Michelle Smart
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Beware….some spoilers ahead!!!!

Michelle Smart’s Kalliakis Crown Trilogy has quite an original storyline.
The three handsome princes of the mythical island country of Agon, who are bound by duty to find right woman to marry.

I liked the first two books ….Talos claims his Virgin and Theseus discovers his Heir and now we have Helios, the eldest and heir to the throne, in his quest to marry a woman acceptable to his family and country…i.e a young and beautiful woman with Agon royal blood!!!!

Whilst on his quest to finding a perfect royal to-be-wife, he’s also been busy for the last three months having a “torrid” and secret affair with a not royal blood woman, named Amy Green, who has been hired as the museum curator for the upcoming King Astreus Jubilee Gala.

Okay, so the guy makes a plan!!! Not to forget, this is a prince soon to be King…..and we know all about Kings!!!! Their word is law!!!!

So, Helios and Amy are taking a sexy bath together, when he delivers a bombshell!!

But it would be inappropriate for my lover to attend the ball where I’m to select my future wife.” –Helios tells Amy

Is it any wonder that Amy sits up and asks………

”Your future wife? What are you talking about?”

Never mind that Helios had told her from the start that this was just going to be an affair. Did Amy actually think that she stood a chance of becoming Helios’s queen???? Off she goes in a huff!!! But Helios sees nothing wrong about having the right wife and a mistress on the side…….as he tells Amy….it’s something that royals do!!! So, does that mean it’s……….

Amy feels torn….right!!!!! She wants Helios…of course she does….so why not enjoy “bonking” the future king for the next three months until he gets married….so what if he’s chosen his future wife!!!! No problem….Helios tells Amy that she’s the only woman he’s sleeping with now…oooooh, does that make it right??? So, dancing and dining with his chosen future wife and running off to do it with the mistress is okay for Helios……..

And Amy agrees to this arrangement!!!! Girl, this is just so not right!!!! That is ……

There are a large number of very negative reviews about this book and I understand the comments made about Helios and Amy continuing with their affair, even when his engagement and wedding plans to another woman are announced. Yes, the whole duty thing Helios felt towards his family and country was outdated….but I felt he should have been more of an honorable man towards his future wife, Catalina. His behavior until the last minute of the wedding day was so not “pretty”. I so not liked this future king!!! In fact, my thoughts were………

Now, after all my “venting”, you may think……no Alex, the Romance Fox, DID NOT enjoy or like this book!!!!!
The truth……I didn’t want to like it……………but it’s somewhat kind of weird because I didn’t exactly hate it!!!!
One of the reasons ……there were some hilarious moments and witty dialogue…..and some moments of me saying…WHAT!!!!! The scene where Amy is told about the whole future wife thingies by Helios….she bangs Helio’s private apartment door with force, rushes off to her own apartment to discover that her beauty facial mask that she had on during the romantic bath with him, had now dried and cracked!!!!
No, not my favorite by this author, but not exactly horrible either!!

My reviews for books #1 and #2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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